MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for August 8th 2012
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Wednesday, August 8th 2012 - 07:00 UTC
Patagonia province delegation promotes fishery produce sales in Brazil
A delegation from the Argentine Patagonian province of Chubut fishing industry is on a business round of Brazil and the first city to visit was Florianópolis. The group led by Chubut governor Martin Buzzi is also scheduled to visit Sao Paulo and Brasilia.
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Wednesday, August 8th 2012 - 06:57 UTC
Black-browed Albatross success in Falklands not reflected in South Georgia
The July edition of the South Georgia Newsletter has an interesting comment on the recent announcement that the Falklands’ population of black-browed Albatross has seen a healthy increase in the number of breeding birds, information that has been submitted to BirdLife International for use in the Red List assessment process
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Wednesday, August 8th 2012 - 06:51 UTC
Chile announces plan to improve living conditions of the indigenous Mapuche peoples
In a special cabinet meeting last Friday, Chilean President Sebastián Piñera proposed a series of measures aimed at improving infrastructure and human investment in the south-central Araucanía region.
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Wednesday, August 8th 2012 - 06:47 UTC
Poll shows deeper interest rates cuts expected from the Brazilian central bank
Weak economic growth will likely prompt Brazil's central bank to cut interest rates deeper than previously expected this year, a weekly central bank survey of economists showed on Monday.
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Wednesday, August 8th 2012 - 06:37 UTC
Brazil begins major military exercise to test security along its southern borders
Brazilian Armed Forces began this week a major deployment along the borders of Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia involving 9.000 troops from the three services with the purpose of testing border security against smugglers mainly of arms and drugs and organized crime, said the Ministry of Defence.
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Wednesday, August 8th 2012 - 00:58 UTC
South Georgia ‘77 “Operation Journeyman”, a drill for the recovery of the Falklands in 1982
The July edition of the South Georgia Newsletter recalls a major British military and political event in the South Atlantic has been largely overlooked by the region’s history books. A Royal Navy task force, codenamed Operation Journeyman, was deployed to the waters around South Georgia and the Falklands in 1977 following the occupation of Southern Thule in the South Sandwich Islands by 50 Argentine “scientists”.
